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Czech Films at Venice IFF
THE PAINTED BIRD
VENEZIA 76
Czech Republic, Ukraine, Slovakia 2019 / 169 min
Directed by: Václav Marhoul
Produced by: Václav Marhoul / Silver Screen (CZ)
Co-produced by: Directory Films (UA), PubRes (SK), Czech Television (CZ), Radio and Television Slovakia (SK), Jaroslav & Milada Kučerovi (CZ), Innogy (CZ), Richard Kaucký (CZ)
Cast: Petr Kotlár, Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgaard, Udo Kier, Julian Sands, Barry Pepper, Jitka Čvančarová... (full list)
The film follows the journey of The Boy, entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. The old woman soon dies and the Boy is on his own, wandering through the country-side, from village to farmhouse. As he struggles for survival, The Boy suffers through extraordinary brutality meted out by the ignorant, superstitious peasants and he witnesses the terrifying violence of the efficient, ruthless soldiers, both Russian and German.
When the war ends, The Boy has been changed, forever.
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TRAILER
SCREENINGS (PUBLIC)
TUE 09/03 | 16:45 | Sala Grande
WED 09/04 | 16:45 | PalaBiennale
SCREENINGS (PASS HOLDERS)
MON 09/02 | 20:00 | Sala Darsena
MON 09/02 | 21:00 | Sala Perla
TUE 09/03 | 16:45 | Sala Grande
WED 09/03 | 16:45 | PalaBiennale
WORLD SALES
Hengameh Panahi / Celluloid Dreams
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Charlotte Mickie / Celluloid Dreams
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FESTIVALS
Pascale Ramonda / Celluloid Dreams
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ORIZZONTI
Czech Republic, Slovakia, France 2019 / 13 min
Directed by: Dávid Štumpf, Michaela Mihályi
Produced by: Peter Badač / BFILM.cz (CZ)
Co-produced by: BFILM (SK), Bagan Films (FR), FAMU (CZ) ... (full crew)
An apartment building full of self centered inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol... While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard to solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions. The consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story while transforming it into an contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.
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TRAILER
SCREENINGS (PUBLIC)
THU 08/29 | 16:30 | PalaBiennale
FRI 09/06 | 17:15 | Sala Giardino
SAT 09/07 | 16:30 | Sala Giardino
SCREENINGS (PASS HOLDERS)
THU 08/29 | 16:30 | PalaBiennale
FRI 09/06 | 11:15 | Sala Giardino
FRI 09/06 | 17:15 | Sala Giardino
SAT 09/07 | 16:30 | Sala Giardino
WORLD SALES
Anthony Trihan / Next Film Distribution
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FESTIVALS
Alena Gabrižová / BFILM
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VENICE CLASSICS
Czechoslovakia 1932 / 90 min
Directed by: Gustav Machatý
Produced by: Elektafilm, Gustav Machatý
Eva, the daughter of a landowner, marries the well-off but many years older Emil Jermann. Upon returning from the marriage ceremony to their luxurious Prague apartment she realizes her mistake: her husband shows no interest in her as a woman. The sensitive girl suffers from his cold and bachelor's meticulousness so much that she returns to her father's estate and requests a divorce on grounds of insuperable revulsion. While bathing in the pond Eva meets Adam, a young civil engineer working close by on a highway construction site. The man is the exact opposite of her husband: though he looks robust, he acts gently. During a night-time storm Eva goes after him to his house and becomes his lover. Only now does she know the passion of love. Her husband receives a court dispatch and sets off after Eva and beseeches her, to no avail, to return. On the way back he comes across Adam and realizes who he is. Both men are staying in a village inn where Eva comes to visit Adam. The husband commits suicide in his room. His death comes between the lovers. Adam returns to his work, Eva gives birth to a child.
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SCREENINGS (PUBLIC)
TUE 08/27 | 21:00 | Sala Darsena
THU 08/29 | 16:45 | Sala Volpi
FRI 09/06 | 14:30 | Sala Casinò
SCREENINGS (PASS HOLDERS)
THU 08/29 | 16:45 | Sala Volpi
FRI 09/06 | 14:30 | Sala Casinò
SALES AND FESTIVALS
Tomáš Žůrek / NFA, Prague
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OUT OF COMPETITION
Netherlands, Lithuania, Czech Republic 2019 / 135 min
Directed by: Sergei Loznitsa
Produced by: Sergei Loznitsa, Maria Baker-Choustova / Atoms & Void (NL)
Co-produced by: Studio Uljana Kim (LT), nutprodukce (CZ)
Unique, mostly unseen before, archive footage from March 1953, presents the funeral of Joseph Stalin as the culmination of the dictator’s personality cult. The news of Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, shocked the entire Soviet Union. The burial ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of mourners. We observe every stage of the funeral spectacle, described by Pravda newspaper, as the Great Farewell, and receive an unprecedented access to the dramatic and absurd experience of life and death under Stalin’s reign. The film addresses the issue of Stalin’s personality cult as a form of terror-induced delusion. It gives an insight into the nature of the regime and its legacy, still haunting the contemporary world.
SCREENINGS (PUBLIC)
FRI 09/06 | 14:00 | Sala Grande
FRI 09/06 | 22:00 | Sala Perla
SCREENINGS (PASS HOLDERS)
THU 09/05 | 09:00 | Sala Giardino
FRI 09/06 | 14:00 | Sala Grande
FRI 09/06 | 22:00 | Sala Perla
SALES
Atoms & Void
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Czech Film Fund at Venice IFF 2019
Helena Bezděk Fraňková - Director of the Czech Film Fund
September 2 - 3
Markéta Šantrochová - Head of Czech Film Center
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September 2 - 5
